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Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about as usual, about as I have for the past twenty, twenty-five years. F: You didn't have any opportunity to observe his relationships then with President Kennedy? K: Heavens, F: Where were you on that November 22, 1963? Here in Austin? K: Right

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that trip. It was a great trip. and it did a lot of good. I honestly believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally. I don't think [he.made

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is important? S: No. When he ran for re-election as president after Kennedy was assassinated, I made a bet with Beavers up here, who's the Buick dealer, that Johnson would carry Gregg County by a bigger percentage of the vote than he carried G

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

with a shaggy hairdo. He was Visibly amused. shall never forget. grandchildren. It was Senator John F. Kennedy. And thaUs an experience that I I wished I could record it for my It was a great experience for us. PB: Did you have other contacts

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

? Q: He just liked it and got enjoyment out of it. He did that all along right up to this last election. He was doing it during the Kennedy election. He was down here for this Gonzales election. G: You mentioned that during the NYA period he came

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at West Point, at which time he was, of course, Vice President of the United States, with President Kennedy being President at the time. I spent most of the day with him. I met him at Stewart Air Force Base, which is near Newburgh, New York

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 11 W: I think he did, but not for long, and it wasn't much of a career for him. The only thing that--it was either Babe [Mylton] Kennedy or Jack Lane or maybe one of the Puls that stayed there at the Gates' house. They decided one Sunday afternoon

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Kennedy was tempted by the idea of moving in that direction, but it did not turn out to be practical. On the one hand, the Chinese Nationalists have always continued to maintain their claim as being the legitimate government not only of Formosa, but also

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of view as an old populist, one of the finest things that a President could do would be to use his powers to help bring interest rates down. I didn't have much success in that regard about interest rates with Lyndon Johnson or with John Kennedy. say I

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the White House the same way a woman will bring a fern plant into her home. It was sort of window dressing. And I think that he saw Schlesinger that way in the Kennedy White House. I don't think he thought that any of these people really had anything to do

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

standpoint was when I came here, I was new and Mr. Katzenbach actually held my job in 1961 and 1962 under [Attorney General] Bob Kennedy and [Deputy Attorney General] Byron White, before he succeeded Byron White as Deputy. So that he knew perfectly well what

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the President worsen respect what to NATO and to He has been interested interest has really going the in and has supported with Kennedy It wasn't That would just his He would have than to change DeGaulle. to demonstrate Viet in 1967. concern

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

became more convinced--we had many talks about this--that the FAA should not remain independent. We began to set in motion plans to reopen the whole question of a Department of Transportation. To do this required support from FAA. President Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

came aboard? s: Only the most general kind of instructions. At that time Henry Wilson had been in charge of the House side of Congressional relations for the President-well, he'd come in from the Kennedy days, he'd been there since '61

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at various levels, regional forester, assistant chief of the Forest Service. I was appointed to this position by Secretary Freeman in March 1962. F: You stayed on then from the Kennedy into the Johnson Administration without any pause? C: That's correct

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

wanted to ask you about was the issue of the overcrowding at Arlington Cemetery. I believe specifically since John F. Kennedy's burial there, this has grown as a controversy and the debate has been whether to expand or confine Arlington Cemetery. whom

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Education Academic Facilities Act, put the federal government in the business of aiding education, and the 1956 act which was much more comprehensive. I think settled it. I think the importance of this would be hard to exaggerate. Mr. Kennedy had done what

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in a forum Bob Calvert was chairman, Vann Kennedy was secretary. were all Stevenson appointees, Stevenson's tion. that was all the people, Stevenson's organiza- When they had that one vote, he waited, to find one. They he waited for them to try

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that area, we are going to impound them, because the Humane Society is going to have a court order." He really got excited then. He called Christine Stevens, the wife of Roger Stevens, the director of the Kennedy Center. Chris has been very involved

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

'62 through '64 there was a lot of attention being paid to the desirability of reducing taxes, and there was a massive tax reduction, individual and corporate income taxes, that President Kennedy sent down. The legislation actually didn't get passed

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Secretary takes on this. If he's with us, let him put his hand up in an expression of support. And that audience broke into rhythmic applause like they did after the Kennedy film at the convention. And I sat there, unfortunately I didn't have

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

history ,,,ill reflect that he is a fine judge. He came from the Congress to the federal judiciary under a little bit af a tainted circurnstance because there were a lot of people that accused President Kennedy, who nominated him to the Federal District

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of numerous fountain pens at the signing of some of these major bills. My work was primarily with the people who are the principal historical figures of this period--first, Francis Keppel, Commissioner of Education under President Kennedy and later President

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

now for about nine months. G: Since he has been in France, has he been in touch with you? H: We've exchanged a couple of letters, and he was back over for the Kennedy funeral and I saw him briefly at that time. G: Was there any discussion relating

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

members within a year, and so on October 22, 1963, President Kennedy reappointed me to the Commission. term under the new statute. tenure. We thereby acquired a three-year The prior statute gave the commissioners no We held office at the President's

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

what he had to do. And he proved that later on when he had a great part in seeing that the civil rights acts were passed after Kennedy was assassinated. I think President Johnson can be credited with passing more liberal legislation than anybody

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Narva -- I -- 24 Kennedy Administration and the last year with Lyndon Johnson--George Burkley had planned to retire. He'd

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Cyrus Vance in 1960 after the Kennedy victory, somehow felt a strand out of his own past coming to the fore when out of the blind a letter from Matthew Nimetz arrived. We interviewed Matt and later, with the approval of the President, added Matt to our

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

even recall ever hearing of him. We had other members we were active with like Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon, but Lyndon Johnson, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the moment and their ability to talk to the Soviets about our position is hard to reconstruct, but Wilson felt it was a fundamental difference, and I am inclined to agree. M: There were also a couple of flurries in there--one involving Bobby Kennedy, I

Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

looked November, I was tentatively And on that particular day, which was a Wednesday in this cancelled scheduled to see President Kennedy, but it turned out later that out, that he was too busy in getting off to Texas . And of course

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

imagine Kennedy told him that he could . G : Do you think that he felt that his heart was a factor, and maybe that if he continued as majority leader he might have health problems? B: He didn't talk about it . G: Back to the presidency now . You

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

think that President Truman was a great builder, a great architect of our policies of collective security and development. I think that Presi- dent Kennedy was able in a--to project an image of this country and of his own leadership

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. In retrospect I would say that John F. Kennedy did. On occasion he was good at this, but there were times too when he lost his audience. I remember when he gave his "Older American" speech in Madison Square Garden. It was judged a real calamity in terms

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

felt when he took over as president after Kennedy was killed that he had a mission to try to pass the legislation that had been unable to pass, that Kennedy espoused but could not pass. So in the first hundred to hundred and eighty days he had

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

th t he Pr e si dent a grea t deal. He was a very v is ib le Pr es s Sec r e t ary --ver y, v e r y v is i ble , more so than anybody I guess. We l l, Saling er was v i s ib le in Kennedy 's days, of course--bu t Bi l l wa s the fi rst Pre ss

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in those days, because back here in Washington I helped the International Visitors' Program, and worked with foreign students during Angier Biddle Duke's tenure as chief of protocol under Kennedy. progra~s I gave in the State Department, folk music

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

these things about Jim and he liked Jim so he went to the secretary of defense and asked if he could have a Jet Star. Of course it had to be approved by President Kennedy and they finally agreed that yes, he could have a Jet Star. So he picked Cross to be his